Latch for gates.



Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

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LATCH FOR GATES.

APPLICATION min JUNE s, 1914 W. K. VOORH UNTED STATES WALTER K. VOORHEESAND' FRANK A. ANDERSON, 0E CEDAR FALLS, IQWA.

LATCH FOR GATES.

manson Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

Application led .T une 5, 1914. Serial No. 843,227.

T0 all 'whom it may concern Be it known that we, WALTER K. VOOR- HEESand FRANK A. ANDERSON, citizens of the United States of America, andresidents of Cedar Falls, Blackhawk county, Iowa, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Latches for Gates, of which the followingis a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in latches for gates, and theobject of our improvement is to furnish for gates, especially for theflexible swinging typeA having tubular front and rear stiles, a catchadapted to be rocked at an angle to the front stile of a gate todetachably secure same in one position, with means for releasablyholding the catch engaged with the stile.

This object we have eected by the means which are hereinafter describedand claimed, and which are illustrated by the accompanying drawings, inwhich,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of our improved latch as detachably engagedwith the front stile of a gate, with parts broken away, and other partsin vertical section. Fig. 2 is an upper plan view of the parts shown insaid Fig. 1, with parts shown in horizontal section. Fig. 3 is an underplan view of the same, with the same parts sectioned horizontally asmentioned in Fig. 2.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout theseveral views.

The numeral 13 denotes a portion of a vertical tubular front stile of aswinging gate placed adjacent and in spaced relation to a gate-post 20.

A bracket-bar 1 is threaded at one end to be screwed into the post 20for adjustment to and from the adjacent stile 13, and has its other endfiattened at 2 into a disk 3 having projections adapted to formshoulders A and 5 in spaced pairs on opposite sides, so that the arcs ofthe edge therebetween may serve as runways for parts to be hereinaftermentioned. The part 2 is centrally orifced vertically, so that the arcs3 are concentric therewith, to receive a vertical pivot-bolt 6 passedthrough an orifice in a flat body 10 thereabove seated to swing upon thesaid part 2, and secured by a nut 7. The body 10 has two verticalorifices on opposite sides and located to that side of the body 10 whichextends toward said stile relatively to the pivot 6.

The numerals 8 and 9 denote headed pins which are seated in saidorifices to have their lower ends depend therethrough and into therunways 3 on either side of the plate 2 so as to be stopped by eithershoulder i or 5 according to the necessities of the case as either pinis lifted to clear same to permit the body 10 to be rocked laterally tothereby engage the other pin with one of the shoulders. rl`he lowerextremities of said pins are preferably upset a little as shown in Fig.1, to prevent their withdrawal from the body 10, while still permittingthem to be lifted up or down in the runway.

The body 10 has its part which extends toward said stile formed intodivergent fork-members 11 adapted to inclose the stile releasably.

lVhen the parts are in the positions shown in said figures the forkmembers are seated about Opposite sides of the stile, and locked inengagement therewith. rlhis is due to the fact that the depending endsof the pins 8 and 9, which are seated in the Oppositely located runways3 of the plate 2, engage the like shoulders 5 to prevent lateralswinging of the body 10. 1f it is desired to swing said stile in acertain direction, it is only necessary to lift the pin on the sideopposite that to which the gate is to be swung, when the body becomesreleased to swing that way, due to the locating of said pins between thepivot 6 and said stile. lf the pins are located between said pivot andthe post 20, the gate may be swung toward the side in which the pin isdisengaged, but this variation comes within the scope of our invention.The lifted pin being then released, remains up riding on the endprojection of the part 2 while the stile is being swung back intoengagement with the inner walls of the fork 11, to return the fork toits iirst position, when the lifted pin will fall under the action ofgravity to be reseated in its runway 3' to lock the catch over thestile.'

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

1. The combination with a gate-post and a gate-stile, of a latchcomprising a body secured to the post and having a flattened portionprovided with spaced stops on opposite side edges, a fork mediallypivoted on said iiattened part, and bodies mounted on said fork todepend releasably into engagement with said stops, the members of thefork e1nbracing said stile releasably.

2. The combination with a gate-post and a gate-stile, of a latchcomprising a body secured to the post adjustably, extending toward thestile and having opposite side edges provided with curved recesseshaving abrupt end-walls to serve as stops, a fork medially pivoted tosaid body to releasably embrace the stile with its members, headed pinsmounted on opposite sides of said fork for vertical movements to havetheir depending ends seated releasably in said recesses.

3. The combination with a gate-post and a gate-stile, ofa latchcomprising a body secured to the post and having a flattened end formedwith its opposite side edges recessed with concentric arc-shaped wallsand having stop-shoulders at the ends of the recesses, a body seated onsaid flattened portion, both said bodies being orificed in line, apivot-bolt seated in said alined orifices concentric with said arcshaped recesses, said second mentioned body having divergent forksextending toward and embracing said stile, and having orifices onopposite sides, headed pins seated in said orifices to depend into saidrecesses and be locked against like shoulders Vwhen so depending, thesecond-mentioned body adapted to rock laterally to release the stile,when either pin is lifted to clear its engaged shoulder.

4. The combination with a gate-post and a gate-stile, of a latchcomprising a body secured to the post and having a `flattened endportion, a plate having divergent fork-members pivoted on said flattenedportion to removably embrace said stile, the opposite side Y edges ofsaid flattened portion being recessed to have Wspacedradially-extendingshoulders to serve as stops, said plate havingorifices in opposite sides, headed pins movable through said oricestodepend into said recesses and into engagement with the shoulders nearestthe stile, said pins being located between said stile and the pivot ofsaid plate.

5. The combination with a gate-postand a gate-stile, of a latchcomprising a disks shaped body with a forward projection and havingspaced shoulders on opposite side v edges, said body being secured onsaid post,

a plate pivoted concentrically on said' disk and having divergent forksembracing said stile releasably, orifices in said plate, headed pinsseated in said oriiices'to be vertically movable and depend on each sideofthe disk disk, said pins being: adapted to become re' leased from saiddisk when lifted, and being irremovable from said plate.

6. In combination, a swinging `gate-stile,

5.5. to engage the shoulders on like parts 'of the a forked bodypivotally supported to rock its 'Y Copies of this patent may be obtainedfor ve cents each, by addressing the Gommissioner of Patents,

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